All The Grocer articles in 19 May 2001 – Page 4
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Mergers and acquisitions: Let us prey
In the first of a regular series Neil Sutton provides an update on M&A activity Looking back over the past few years, the venture capital community was often reluctant to invest heavily in the food and beverages sector, fearing that it would be...
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Magazines: BBC tracks the ace bikers
BBC Worldwide launched BBC Superbikes 2001 magazine yesterday (Friday) to support this season's BBC television coverage of British and World Superbikes Championships. The magazine features news pages, high-quality photography, "the story so far"...
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Walker makes tortilla accounts her Mission in life
Mission Foods, manufacturer of tortilla products, has appointed Clare Walker as UK business manager. She will develop own label and brand business, and Mission's retail listings in the UK. Prior to joining Mission Foods, Walker worked as territory...
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SHS swells commercial team to support principal accounts
SHS has recruited two commercial managers, Liz O'Mahoney and Finn O'Driscoll. O'Mahoney will be supporting seven brands for four of SHS principal accounts including Highland Spring and Shloër. She joins from Golden Vale, and her career includes...
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SHEEPMEAT: How the diverted export volume could be absorbed
Avoidance of price-crushing oversupply in the UK sheepmeat market this year depends upon domestic output, imports and consumption together changing in ways sufficient to eradicate or absorb the usual export volume of at least 100,000 tonnes. The...
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Abolition of Resale Price Maintenance: The multiples get sla
Within hours of the abolition of RPM, the major multiple grocers had unveiled plans to slash a selection of healthcare prices by up to 50%. At Asda, Anadin regular 16s were down from £1.75 to 87p, while other cuts included Rennie 24s reduced from...
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Obituary: Tesco's Hyman Kreitman dies at 86
Former Tesco joint chairman Hyman Kreitman has died at the age of 86. A son-in-law of the multiple's founder, the late Sir John Cohen, he joined Tesco in 1946 as an executive director when the chain had 95 open-fronted shops. He played a major role...
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New special election 2001: Top of my wish list, Graham Melmo
Each week in the run up to polling day on June 7, The Grocer will be asking leading figures from across the food and drink industry to identify the one issue they think the newly elected government should tackle first Graham Melmoth, Chief...
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Netherlands: Non food will occupy 20% of Ahold's 70 new mega
Ahold is planning to open 70 "mega-supermarkets" in the Netherlands over the next three to five years trading under its Albert Heijn fascia. The detailed design of the format is still being finalised, but about 20% of the selling space will be...
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Multiples: JS says it's no 2 in online race
Sainsbury claims it has leapfrogged over Asda, Iceland and Waitrose to become the UK's number two online grocery retailer and the fourth biggest in the world. Jennifer Baker-Hirst, new business development director, said the Sainsbury's To You...
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Foot & mouth crisis week13: News analysis: meat sales
Meat: is it time to go over the top? Foot and mouth is yet another PR disaster for a meat chain still shadowed by BSE and CJD, so many trade figures have been puzzled by a low key response from the MLC to date. Marketing director Richard Lowe...
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